Weather!

OMD! This morning about four ayem the muzzer woke us all up. She said "can't ANY of you hear the sirens? We must go down to the basement."

Well, once she got us awake, we could all hear the sirens. Even the Dad could hear the sirens.

The muzzer started grabbing blankets and cell phones, and the dad went and turned off the alarm thingy. It makes MUCH more noise than the sirens, which the muzzer insisted had been going on for at least 15 minutes.
So, the muzzer marched us all down the basement stairs. Be careful! You must duck your head as you come down the stairs. EVEN the muzzer must duck her head a little bit.

And then we opened the latch hook thingy, and went through the door, into the basement.

Our Tornado shelter place is fortuitously placed at the far end of the wine cellar. Fortuitously for the hoomans, anyway. And the people who owned our house before we did put in the racks and shelves, and installed something called "french drains" to keep the basement dry.

But it had been raining and raining and raining...so there was some dampness in the corner where the drain holes come in, but the room was fairly dry. We stayed in the room until the sirens sounded all clear, then came out to see what else had happened.

And the water was flowing, as it is supposed to, right into the drain by the (old) wash tubs.
(the Muzzer does not use those, she has her wash tubs upstairs.)

So, we stayed warm and fairly dry, and no wine bottles were broken to write this blog.

Respectfully

Teka Toy Dagger

note: of course, the muzzer was too sleepy to grab the camera, so all the photos were taken in daylight. TT

Muzzer says: "We were very lucky that no tornados actually touched down near us, but there are lots of trees down, and there have been some close sightings. The rain is supposed to continue all day today and through the night into tomorrow. Total accumulation may be as much as 10 inches. I am thinking of building an ark.